History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp 285-86. [Bethesda Precinct] JAMES B. HOLLOMAN was born October 2, 1827, in Obion County, Tenn. His parents are J. B. and Sarah Holloman, both natives of Kentucky. They went to Tennessee after marriage. The father was one of the most extensive farmers of the neighborhood. His death took place in 1865, on his sixty-fifth birthday. He was a devoted and life-long member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The mother is still living in Tennessee at the advanced age of eighty-two. These parents had seven children--four boys and three girls. Four of the children are yet living. Our subject was married November 6, 1849, to Ailcy M. Osborn, of Kentucky. After marriage he began farming for himself. He had but a small start in beginning, but by industry, economy and good management he has secured a nice home of 100 acres, seventy-five of which are improved. He has been reasonably successful in business. His children were: Isam (deceased), Lucy A., Mary W. (deceased), Sarah (died the past February at the age of twenty-five years; she was for twelve years a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South), William B. (living in Texas), Susan C., Robert L., James I. (deceased). Both parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Hollomon Osborn = Obion-TN TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/trigg/holloman.jb.txt